Hiromichi Horikawa Movies

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Based on a popular play from 1947.

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while...

A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She...

Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the...

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted...

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is...

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa